We were over the fire. You can see fire crews trying to knock down the blaze. This happened near marywood drive. About 40 worked to put out the flames. Windy conditions and low humidity were a major concern. The hills are under a red flag warning for critical wildfire weather through 5 00 p. M. This is still a grave concern to us. We want to make sure that all residents are taking precautions. We are in the peak of fire season. This continues to be considered the high fire zone. Power has been shut off in the area. We are not super concerned about any Additional Fire that would come from fallen wires or downed trees. Citizen app video shows the smoke rising from above the hills. Crews will stay on scene putting water on hot spots and checking for other exposures. As for a cause firefighters zeroing in on this generator found in a carport. No injuries were reported. For breaking news like this be sure to download the new app. It gives you 247 access to cbsn bay area. Lets check in with
Experiencing of the week conditions that were bracing for on sunday and so that is obviously in our favor right now. I know that if this fire started on sunday night things would be vastly different we talk all the time daniel give us some perspective i know all red flag warnings are not created equal how bad it is this one thats coming sunday night monday. Well we definitely dont want to sound like a broken record as we have been in and out of red flag for the last several last several weeks and really the last several months this wind event that we are expecting to see on sunday will bring a extremely strong winds winds that we have not really experience this fire season in fact the last time we saw winds this magnitude and this widespread really in the 2017 and north bay fires so when the tubbs fire yeah was fires burning in sonoma and napa counties and we know how destructive those result so yeah, definitely its been a destructive year definitely bracing for what could be the stron
Valleys and the hills, the Santa Cruz Mountains and the north bay valleys and mountains. Kron fours dan kerman spent the day in santa rosa were firefighters and residents are getting ready for high heat and gusty winds. I temps and high winds a bad combination when you couple it with this very dry brush 90 degree temperatures were already bearing down on santa rosa tuesday afternoon. But by wednesday, a red flag warning kicks in with even warmer temps wind gusts to 55 Miles Per Hour. And exceedingly dry grass and brush just ready to ignite. Santa rosa Fire Department will be staffing to additional wildland fire engines of those 2 fire engines will join a number of other Fire Departments from across noma county that will form a ploy for to a strike teams and task forces right now were looking at a least upwards of 12 Additional Fire engines that will be staffed across the county and likely many more to come. Residents are being told they might have to evacuate thats something beth phil
A lot of these questions whats going on with red flag warning john yeah, robin is something weve seen a lot so far this season, its a pairing of the already hot temperatures that weve had that are only getting hotter dry conditions and the noticeable increase in wind speeds today these offshore winds will be pushing into the bay area consistently starting today lasting through tomorrow into early friday, too. And red flag warnings are officially in effect as of just a few minutes ago looking outside at our sutro tower right here skies are crystal clear. No fog. No cloud cover it is dry at least it is a beautiful start to the morning as i mentioned red flag warnings really just took effect from 05 00am this morning until 11 00am on friday and really lighting up the vast majority of the bay area here upper elevations of the Santa Cruz Mountains from the inland east bay all the way out to the hills right above oakland, san leandro down through fremont and then all across the north bay to
Conditions heading our way law yeah, this historically one of the worst times a year we get those offshore winds. And the dangerous fire conditions of course for many folks looks beautiful down below like today, lots of sunshine and warm weather but watch what happens here, weve got a cold front that is moving over the top of this ridge once that moves on by High Pressure starts to build on the backside of that. And then here come those winds those dry northerly offshore winds developing and very gusty in spots, especially over the mountain tops but even in some of the urban areas youre going to feel the gusts down below so fire danger going to be running high as we head into the next few days right now we havent seen much in that offshore wind developing yet but not expected still sea breeze in the San Francisco on the west at 5, 6, in the pacific out of the west 9 in sfo, a west oakland of 5, but look at the north bay see sonoma now get a normally composed the wind at 17 Miles Per Ho